I have some windows c++ code (pure winapi c++, no MFC etc) that I would like to build a GUI for. My code does not know about windows GUI, it is completely decoupled from any type of UI.
The question: ...

We have a large website running that offers a JsonRpc web service.
For offline demonstration purposes, I want to realize a portable, locally running webserver with a minimalistic feature replication ...

I am considering utilizing Python for creating an application. The purpose of this application is solely to interact with the Windows API. My question, therefore, is: Is PyWin32 mature and complete ...

I've noticed that with remote support services, a technician usually sends you a download link to an executable. When you click on that link, it installs a software which automatically connects with ...

We are moving our software project from the practically auto-creating Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2010 to a WiX installer. I'd like to use this change to make sure things are right.
The ...

I am developing a mobile web application that may be browsed in an iPhone. I would like to test this application, but I lack a mobile web device.
How can I test this mobile application on a Windows 7 ...

I have a project that requires me to write a library management system in F# and using Windows Azure for the development. I am quite new to Cloud concept and i don't know what to do as a next step. Is ...

I've got a third-party vendor who is installing a series of Windows services to a (Windows 2008 R2) server in my control. Whilst attempting to run each service under its own least-privilege account, ...

I am thinking of using non-recursive locks; I have found them to be having performance superiority over the standard recursive locks (e.g. SimpleRWSync). I have mainly been using critical sections but ...

I have a client that asked me to develop his Windows Application and use MS Access instead of SQL database. I did and now he asked me that he deployed the Application through several of his offices.
...

I found this little gem waiting for me in the Windows (10/TP) bootmgr located on the first 300+- MB partition.
Can anyone explain to me what it does?
Is there an assembler hidden somewhere?
These all ...

I 've been thinking a lot on auto-updating, but wanted to check with you guys if you see any anti-patterns in my proposal:
Context
I'm coding a game in C++ and SDL, compiled in an Ubuntu (host) for ...

I developed a Windows software about an year ago. Part of it was to monitor few configuration files for manual changes by user and if any of these change restart a particular service.
So, I used the ...

I'm developing a product related to printing. To work it properly in all windows versions I need to include few exe (lpr.exe) files from system32 folder. So I need to know it is legal to distribute ...

It often happens that I develop multiple different projects at once, so I need a solution to switch from one environment to another.
I have created batch files to do the job but as this thing grows, ...

I would like to complete a pharmacy software proof concept. But I have a few questions I do not know.
Physician information
In order to refill or dispense a new RX the software needs to have access ...

As you know when we run instruction in our code
like long a = b;
we will not have the same ticks each to be executed.
first exeution it take 2ticks;
second exeution it take 3ticks;
third exeution it ...

I've written my own C# TCP communications module (using SocketAsyncEventArgs, although that's presumably irrelevant). My module runs at both ends of the connection, client and server. As part of the ...

I am using Genymotion to test an app. The app is basically a browser that connects to my website. I do not have the app's source.
I do the development and testing of the website in a domain like this: ...

By default, the installer for my product copies files to the Users\Username\AppData\local\MyProduct directory (though the user can change this during installation, of course).
I want to bundle some ...

I've been slacking off with learning how to program because I'm at my wits end trying to figure out the next step. I want to be able to create forms applications just to test random things and give ...

I am creating app(script) that is used similar to RSS reader for specific webpage that doesn't have RSS.
So my app downloads that html page in defined intervals, checks new items and parses them into ...

I have a C# .NET app that downloads a users Tweets using LinqToTwitter. This is for TV broadcast - the client wants to show Tweets on air. We have two other apps that need to access these tweets. One ...

We want to be able to offer users of our software the facility of having a miscellaneous folder for each of their clients.
All these client folders would be stored together in another folder called ...

I've seen an interview with Richard Stallman some time ago, and he was asked a question about security and Windows OS which he answered saying that there are some relatively bad design decisions that ...

We got a situation where we need to write a windows service using c#, the service need to be install on a particular -single- server. Also service need to communicate with a DB to access certain table ...